Revision as of 21:13, 22 July 2014

On this page, we're collecting tips and tricks to make Plasma work on Wayland:

Build instructions

• Generic building instructions for Wayland / Weston: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
• All these pieces, but especially QtWayland: http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtWayland

Running KF5 applications under Wayland

Inside an existing X session:

weston

starts a new window under your X server with Weston running inside it.

From a hard console / virtual terminal:

export $(dbus-launch)
weston-launch
kwrite -platform wayland